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Post by David367th on Sept 23, 2017 16:25:16 GMT
Acording to the Wikipedia Article on Coilguns: The challenge is to recreate this coilgun. - 2 gram Armeture
- 1 cm barrel length
- 5 km/s muzzle velocity
- Single stage
I would assume the winner would be whoever can create the least power consuming, least mass, and the cheapest coilgun. Credit to Fgdfgfthgr and overloaderdave on discord for the ideas. |
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Post by Fgdfgfthgr on Sept 24, 2017 4:55:56 GMT
2.52km/s, can't go higher anymore.
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Post by The Astronomer on Sept 24, 2017 6:04:39 GMT
I think you'll need specialized material, like the Railgun Armature material set.
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Post by madmike on Sept 24, 2017 8:06:37 GMT
I think you'll need specialized material, like the Railgun Armature material set. Pretty much. You physically can't accelerate 2g of any stock coilgun armature material that quickly without it shattering, unless I'm missing a variable somewhere. |
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Post by David367th on Sept 24, 2017 13:46:12 GMT
I think you'll need specialized material, like the Railgun Armature material set. Pretty much. You physically can't accelerate 2g of any stock coilgun armature material that quickly without it shattering, unless I'm missing a variable somewhere. The real coilgun afaik fired a hollow ring. |
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Post by Kerr on Sept 24, 2017 16:42:07 GMT
These requirement can't be fulfilled with standart materials, the russian coilgun was a one-shot device. This is purely my assumption based on materials used back then and the enormous magnetic field required for such accelerations which needs at least kiloamps of current to be this intense.
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Post by Enderminion on Sept 24, 2017 17:05:10 GMT
These requirement can't be fulfilled with standart materials, the russian coilgun was a one-shot device. This is purely my assumption based on materials used back then and the enormous magnetic field required for such accelerations which needs at least kiloamps of current to be this intense. so what's a standart material? |
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Post by Kerr on Sept 24, 2017 19:36:52 GMT
These requirement can't be fulfilled with standart materials, the russian coilgun was a one-shot device. This is purely my assumption based on materials used back then and the enormous magnetic field required for such accelerations which needs at least kiloamps of current to be this intense. so what's a standart material? A material which can be produced in decent quantities with current tech, mostly anything that isn't nanomaterials or special Superconductors. |
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Post by Enderminion on Sept 24, 2017 20:24:22 GMT
so what's a standart material? A material which can be produced in decent quantities with current tech, mostly anything that isn't nanomaterials or special Superconductors. I was poking fun at "standart" standard is correct |
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Post by teeth on Sept 24, 2017 20:40:53 GMT
A material which can be produced in decent quantities with current tech, mostly anything that isn't nanomaterials or special Superconductors. I was poking fun at "standart" standard is correct Standart is a type of vodka, it would make sense if Russians used Standart materials. |
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Post by David367th on Sept 24, 2017 21:48:36 GMT
Vodka bottle armatures, sounds about right.
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Post by Rocket Witch on Sept 30, 2017 22:12:47 GMT
Mostly being an extruded ring, a bottle shape probably makes a legitimately good armature.
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